Issue No 42 | 17 December 1999 | |
Letters to the EditorAquilina's Insult
The new "award" from Aquilina via Boston is the biggest insult I have experienced in 32 years of teaching. It strikes me that both men named above have read a copy of the Peter Reith "Industrial Relations" manifesto, and have taken it to heart. I had great pleasure in returning my copy, after retrieving it from the toilet where I kept it case of constipation, to its rightful owners. Perhaps they can find a better use for it. If we lose the fight many a small school will close while their students are transported to larger centres. Teachers made redundent by this move, and increased teaching hours will be pleased to be part of the pool to combat the teacher shortage. Keep up the fight and see this document for what it is worth. Be honest and show Aquilina and Boston for the dishonest people they are. I Dando
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Interview: Costa Bravo Labor Council�s chief trouble maker chronicles the battles of the past year and ponders those still to come. Unions: More Wins Than Losses Workers Online ranks the Top Ten industrial relations stories from a year of frenetic activity. International: Eric Lee's Year in Review The editor of Labourstart looks back over his favourite stories of 1999. Politics: So Many Questions It was a year in politics that threw up more questions than answers. We look at some of the sticky ones. Republic: Referendum With Class Labor heretic Michael Thomspson analyses the failure of the Republican proposition. Environment: Seattle Kills Greens V Jobs Bogey The sight of US unionists, environmentalists and human rights activists being attacked by police in Seattle shows how far the progressive movement has come. Deface a Face: Give Him a Hairdo What better present could Michael Costa offer Workers Online readers than the chance to give him a Deface a Face style make over? Labour Review: What's New at the Information Centre See the latest issue of Labour Review, our resource for officials, activists and students. Review: Cultural Wasteland Workers Online resident door-bitches Zanga and Paul pass judgement on the year that finished the millennium.
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